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Creating new materials to cure cancer and treating malaria is all in a day's work

When Voranaddha “Bim” Vacharathit ’10 steps from the elevator into the fourth floor of the Engineering Science Building at 40 Oxford Street, she enters a world of unexpected connections.

There, Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering David Mooney’s lab brings researchers and students in biology, chemistry, materials science, and engineering together at the center of a new field—biologically inspired engineering. Their discoveries about interactions between natural and artificial materials are reshaping views of health, disease, and medicine.

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